Bertie County Will Book D, page 173
Will of William Armistead, Senior 19 Jan 1791 Feb Ct 1791
“I give my body to the Earth (…) to be decently buried without Pomp or State…”
– Wife SARAH ARMISTEAD – lend the plantation where I now live, Negroes Mon,
Nell, Violett, Peter, Nanny, Will, Jenny and Sue, also furniture, china, horses, tools and cattle, all for her lifetime or widowhood for the use of the children who may live with her until they come of age or marry, when each may receive his share.
– Wife – 200 barrels of Indian corn. At my wife’s death the land lent to her is to be equally divided from the river back between my two sons JORDAN and STARKEY, and if either dies before he marries or comes of age then the survivor will inherit.
– The remaining part of the estate lent my wife is to be divided at her death among my five sons JOHN, WILLIAM, ROBERT, JORDAN and STARKEY.
Three oldest sons JOHN, WILLIAM and ROBERT – the rest of my lands to be equally divided. My five sons – all Negroes, horses and cattle, and all my vessels, boats and tacking thereunto,
all to be equally divided among them as they come the the age of twenty-one.
– Daughter ELIZABETH TURNER – 200 pounds hard money, exclusive of what I have
already given.
– Daughter SARAH ARMISTEAD – 500 pounds hard money.
– Daughter MARY ARMISTEAD – 600 pounds hard money to be paid into the hands of my son
WILLIAM to be laid out for Negroes or put to interest and paid to her the day of her marriage or coming to the age of twenty-one.
– Daughter PRISCILLA ARMISTEAD – 600 pounds hard money to be paid into the hands of my son WILLIAM to be laid out for Negroes or put to interest and paid to her the day of her marriage or coming to the age of twenty-one.
A windmill is to be built on my plantation and paid for by my executors.
If any of my children die before marriage or coming of age his legacy will return to my estate, except for the legacy left JORDAN and STARKEY.
If JOHN should claim for himself any part of my estate or the estate of WILLIAM and JOHN ARMISTEAD more than is bequeathed him, then that bequest shall re-turn to my estate and be divided between my sons WILLIAM, ROBERT, JORDAN and STARKEY,
Ex. wife, sons JOHN, ROBERT and WILLIAM
Wit. THOMAS STEWART, JOHN BROMLEY, ELIZABETH MAER

Bertie County Will Book D, page 337
Will of William Armistead 7 Jul 1793 Aug Ct 1796
I request to be buried “without Pomp or State.”
Mother SARAH ARMISTEAD – lend Negro Patty for her lifetime, and at her death to be divide among my brothers and sisters or their issue.
My executors are to buy two Negro girls, one of which I lend to my sister SALLY GUYTHER and the other to my sister POLLY ARMISTEAD during their lifetime, and if they leave no issue
these shall return to my estate and be divided among my brothers and sisters.
– My Negro David is to be set free, and I give him an unimproved lot in Plymouth anywhere back of the second street from the water.
– My executors may have 250 hard dollars.
Residue of estate to be divided among my brothers
JOHN, ROBERT, JORDAN and STARKEY ARMISTEAD, and sisters ELISABETH TURNER,
SARAH GUYTHER and POLLY and PRISCILLA ARMISTEAD.
Brother JORDAN – my books.
To JOHN ARMISTEAD – my desk. With respect to the mourning of my friends, I
would wish nothing more should be worn but a black ribbon on the left arm.
Ex. brothers JOHN and ROBERT (when of lawful age)
Wit. (none)
(Probate indicates will proved on oath of CHRISTIAN REED. This will contains a clause which was marked out, but bequests 150 pounds to the poor children of Bertie and Tyrell Counties, to be used in settling a school in Cashie Neck, Plymouth or Windsor, but giving preference to those in Cashie Neck.

“The Herald of Freedom” of Edenton: Printed by James Wills Vol. XIV Wed evening, March 27, 1799. Number 680
Notice. Will be sold, on the 25th of April next, at the dwelling house of Mrs. Sarah Armistead, on Cashie river, Fourteen Guns, the property of William Armistead, jun, dec and Robert Armistead . . Executors. March 15th 1799.

The will of Sarah Armistead Will Book G, page 42 12 Feb 1818 Feb Ct 1818
Sons JOHN and STARK ARMISTEAD and the heirs of my three departed sons WILLIAM, ROBERT, and JORDAN – all the Negroes I may own at my death. which were left to me by my deceased husband, to be divided among them agreeable to their father’s will.
– Son JOHN ARMISTEAD – $500.
– Daughter ELIZABETH TURNER – Negroes Simon and Andrew.
– Son STARK ARMISTEAD – $2500.
– Daughter PRISCILLA THORP – Negroes George, Joe, Lovey, and Stephen, also my bowfit, bureau now in her possession, bedstead, and one piece of swamp land on the Roanoke River
called “Roger’s Island” as per the deed.
– Grandsons JOHN S. ARMISTEAD, ROBERT ARMISTEAD, THOMAS ARMISTEAD, and ANTHONY ARMISTEAD (children of my dec’d. son ROBERT) – all my right to the fishery on Broad Creek and the marsh fishery on the Roanoke, as bought of JNO. ARMISTEAD per deed. Grandson WILLIAM J.ARMISTEAD – Negro Gilbert.
Daughter ELIZABETH TURNER – land on the Roanoke adj. the ferry landing, as per the deed. Grandsons NATHANL. WRIGHT, JOHN A.WRIGHT, JORDAN WRIGHT, and DAVID N. WRIGHT – $1500 each.
Granddaughter SALLY J. WRIGHT – $1500, bed, curtains, etc., to be paid to her when she comes of age or marries.
Remaining estate to my daughters ELIZABETH TURNER and PRISCILLA THORP.
Ex. JOHN ARMISTEAD, STARK ARMISTEAD, THOMAS TURNER
Wit. BENJAMIN B. HUNTER, WM. A. TURNER

Notes from James Moore
Susan Jordan Armistead, Mrs. Augustus Moore, was the daughter of John Armistead and Sarah Harriman. She had one brother Dr. William Armistead. He married Susan Capehart of Avoca. Their only surviving child Meeta Armistead married Baldy Ashburn Capehart of Murfreesboro. They settled at Ashburne Hall in Granville (now Vance) County.

My hunch on Henrietta Moore’s parentage was correct. Just received a packet from Ann Sutton Rowe containing copies of the letters. Also, there is an invitation “Mrs. Augustus Moore. At home Wednesday lst June at 10 o’clock. Stark A. Sutton. Henrietta Moore.” This would appear to be a wedding invitation. Augustus Moore was appointed judge of the Edenton judicial district in 1848. John
Wheeler Moore wrote “He was deep as a jurist, powerful as an advocate and reverenced as a man; but not relishing judicial station he soon resigned his high position. He went back to the practice of his
profession and in April 1851 to the sorrow of all who knew him died, a comparatively young man.” His wife Susan Jordan Armistead was a first cousin of Stark Armistead, Sr. Judge Moore lived in the home
originally occupied by Penelope Parker of Edenton Tea Party fame. The house was moved down to the
waterfront and restored some years ago. It serves as a visitor center for Edenton.

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http://www.salemcongregation.org/records/guyther-sarah-armistead-02i-06-01-ss/
After researching years ago (in Salem College’s history book, “Less time for Meddling” ) I finally made it to her grave…the first Salem student who passed away and was buried on campus. I followed the cemetery grid and then scratched away a couple centuries of lichen to make sure it was hers. She was from Plymouth, NC, died on campus in 1807 at age 11 years, 3 months. Before the time of embalming burial was swift and local. Her body could not be returned to her parents so was buried here in God’s Acre in the Single Sisters’ section.